...or at least my submission for the Worst Plastic Crap on Earth did! I was inspired to pull the image from my Canadian Tire email and sent it to Beth Terry of Fake Plastic Fish! Even though neither I nor Anarres are mentioned by name, I feel so excited to have made a mark!
Inflatable pool bar
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The Worst Plastic Crap on Earth
7/19/2010 10:31:53 AM
by Keith Goetzman
Tags: Keith Goetzman, environment, plastic, waste, business, PVC, Plastic Crap Wall of Shame, Fake Plastic Fish
What’s the most ridiculously wasteful plastic product or packaging you’ve seen lately? Perhaps it’s the food containers specially designed to hold a single cupcake. Or maybe it’s the shrink-wrapped coconuts at your local Safeway, or the PVC “inflatable pool bar” that holds four people and all the booze they can drink. Whatever it is, there’s now a place to share your incredulousness with the world: the Plastic Crap Wall of Shame Facebook page. The enterprise was launched by Beth Terry, the writer behind Fake Plastic Fish, a blog that chronicles her never-ending quest to live life without plastic.
Visiting the Wall of Shame is a virtual tour of the worst of our throwaway society. You’ll be amazed and, I hope, disgusted enough to take action: Terry has asked posters on the page to include company contact information so readers can directly tell manufacturers that their wasteful ways are not going unnoticed.
Sources: Plastic Crap Wall of Shame, Fake Plastic Fish
Image from Plastic Crap Wall of Shame.